Poetry For Children
All the World
Author: Liz Garton Scanlon
Illustrator: Marla Frazee
Award: Caldecott Honor Medal
This children's picturebook is about the simple things in life that makes up all of the world. These are things wide and deep, a garden bed, old and new, the sky. Things that make the world go round, cold and hot, and make it still. The author also says that the world can also be found in you and me, in everything, in all of us.
I thought this book would be perfect to discuss unity in the classroom. How are all of these things similar? How are we all similar? I also think it has a hook to it that will catch the readers. There is a four word cadence that the author uses in this poem. Ever four words describe something that makes up all the world. For example, "Rock, stone, pebble, sand. Body, shoulder, arm, hand. A moat to dig, a shell to keep. All the world is wide and deep."
The illustrations also incorporates this concept of unity. There is diversity among the characters in the book by jobs, age, and ethnicity. The book uses watercolors to illustrate. I think this choice of medium adds to the simplicity in the book. What I was impressed with, was that Marla Frazee, the illustrator, chose to hand-letter the text.
Stardines Swim High Across the Sky and Other Poems
Author: Jack Prelutsky
Illustrated by Carin Berger
This book, uniquely written and illustrated, creates a concept of joining animate animals and inanimate objects, while personifying some with human traits. This really makes the reader question the factuality of it. I know I did. The way that Prelutsky and Berger come together on this is so creative. I really enjoyed the use of actual objects photographed with an illustrated background. The Galda book referenced this as a "museum" concept. I think this was what added to the believability of this unique world that they created.
The poetry, accompanied but the illustrations, are easy to follow. This is a big qualifier for poetry for children. The want it to be easy to understand. Prelutsky did this by activating their prior knowledge of things like stars, lobsters, and pandas, while giving them silly human traits that some can relate to or know someone like. I think this would be a great book to introduce anthology poetry with. It creatively showcases a collection of poems, written and illustrated in a way that fool the readers that they are reading poetry. It is not difficult to understand, and is so different that it is inviting to all. I like that this poetry is fictional, yet feels non-fictional. I think it will get the readers imagination turning.
Stardines Swim High Across the Sky and Other Poems
Author: Jack Prelutsky
Illustrated by Carin Berger
This book, uniquely written and illustrated, creates a concept of joining animate animals and inanimate objects, while personifying some with human traits. This really makes the reader question the factuality of it. I know I did. The way that Prelutsky and Berger come together on this is so creative. I really enjoyed the use of actual objects photographed with an illustrated background. The Galda book referenced this as a "museum" concept. I think this was what added to the believability of this unique world that they created.
The poetry, accompanied but the illustrations, are easy to follow. This is a big qualifier for poetry for children. The want it to be easy to understand. Prelutsky did this by activating their prior knowledge of things like stars, lobsters, and pandas, while giving them silly human traits that some can relate to or know someone like. I think this would be a great book to introduce anthology poetry with. It creatively showcases a collection of poems, written and illustrated in a way that fool the readers that they are reading poetry. It is not difficult to understand, and is so different that it is inviting to all. I like that this poetry is fictional, yet feels non-fictional. I think it will get the readers imagination turning.
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